Ah, hello my old friend exhaustion. Hello dear pen-pal anxiety.

And what's that, a fucked back too?

Time for to read the signs so I shall deactivate for a while.

4500 signed copies of RARE SINGLES now ready for pre-order. It's published in August.

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Belmont Comprehensive School ladz reunited.

(Though neither of us remember one another.)

Essential Iggy content.

Excellent book post today -
Very much looking forward to both of these.

'How easy it is today to forget that pre-internet, the bands who meant the most to us teenagers were those who were right in front of us: those local acts who we could see  for £2.'
Great article on the #Durham /NE music scene back in the day from Benjamin Myers in The Quietus

My back garden (more or less) is for sale.

Urgent call out! If anyone has the funds to help support a #CommunityBuyOut 🙌 We have managed to raise 137k in less than a week, but we still need to raise another 100k by tomorrow to make an offer for this land. Please get in touch if you can help or for more info. RT + share🙏

And Adele’s Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile is the novel that captured her so well

Get elextion done.

“For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.”

― D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), Selected Letters.

Svmer aint icumen in
Lhude sing fuccu
Ich groweþ sad
An barkynge mad
O Inglysshe svmer u
Mak me blu,
Sing fuccu

Traditional

NEW FEATURE: We caught up with northern novelist and Fat White Family biographer, Adelle Stripe, to discuss the things that make her go ‘Hmm?’

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Adelle Stripe
White Rabbit Books
Fat White Family

The third book to be remastered is Nirvana: The True Story by Dr Thackray, with a new foreword by Benjamin Myers.

'Vivid account from an insider's perspective' - The Guardian

Details🔗found.ee/omnibusremaste…

#nirvana #omnibusremastered

I'm proud to have written a new foreword for the reissue of the definitive Nirvana book by the man, the myth, The Legend! aka Dr Thackray.

Finally! Some long overdue recognition for this humble, New Jersey based auteur, feminist and all-round great guy.

Who are the bands/artists your followers would be surprised that you love and know far too much about. I'll begin:

The Incredible String Band

XXXtentacion

The Sweet

Sham 69

Who are the bands/artists your followers would be surprised that you love and know far too much about. I'll begin:

The Incredible String Band

XXXtentacion

The Sweet

Sham 69

What if not 'everything happens for a reason'?

I love literature, film and television.

But, for me, boxing is where the real drama is at the moment.

Full respect to Oleksandr Usyk and his wardrobe and Tyson Fury, who is back home doing the tip run and big ASDA shop, as promised.

Harmony Korine, wearing a green balaclava and smoking cigars for breakfast, questions whether or not I actually exist. Fun times! theguardian.com/film/article/2…